Understanding Human Evolution

"Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution. Written by a leading authority, it lucidly and engagingly explains not only the evolutionary process, but the technologies currently used to unravel the evolutionary past and emergence of Homo sapiens."--

List of contents

1. Evolution; 2. Technology: dating, diets, and development; 3. Discovery and interpretation of the human fossil record: the early days; 4. Discovery and interpretation of the human fossil record: more recent developments; 5. Early bipeds; 6. The muddle in the middle; 7. Homo heidelbergensis and the Neanderthals; 8. The emergence and spread of Homo sapiens.

About the author

Ian Tattersall is Curator Emeritus in the Division of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. With around 400 papers and 30 books published in primatology and evolutionary biology, he has received prizes from organisations ranging from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists to the Accademia Lincei of Rome and the Monuments Conservancy. He has conducted fieldwork in countries as diverse as Madagascar, Yemen, Vietnam and Mauritius.

Summary

This book is for everyone interested in who we are and where we came from. Accessibly written, it presents the evidence from which the complex and tangled story of human evolution is reconstructed, and the techniques by which that evidence is interpreted.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Tattersall, Tattersall Ian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781009098755
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0909875-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Understanding Life
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Palaeontology; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Evolution, popular science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Anthropology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, SCIENCE / Paleontology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Philosophy of Science, Early Man, Genetics (non-medical), Palaeontology, Evolutionary anthropology / Human evolution